{"id":1946,"date":"2010-11-22T16:20:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T00:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/11\/ellen_lesperance_-_what_were_t\/"},"modified":"2010-11-22T16:20:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T00:20:57","slug":"ellen_lesperance_-_what_were_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/11\/ellen_lesperance_-_what_were_t.html","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Lesperance &#8211; dare to be dull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portland&#8217;s Ellen Lesperance won the Seattle Art Museum&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/mt4\/mt-search.cgi?search=Ellen+Lesperance&amp;IncludeBlogs=48\">Betty Bowen Award <\/a>in September, much to to the befuddlement of many in Seattle, who&#8217;d never heard of her. She has an exciting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenlesperance.com\/start.swf\">website<\/a>, especially for feminists who appreciate the wider progressive history of their movement. Her site opens with rousing chants from decades-old street actions, currently, <i>We don&#8217;t want <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cruise_missile\">Cruise<\/a>! <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Using archival footage, Lesperance photographs sweaters worn by demonstrators and&nbsp; recreates them, first in yarn, second abstracted in gouache on paper. Five of these drawings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/exhibit\/exhibitDetail.asp?eventID=21016\">hang at SAM<\/a>, and they are inert: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wahooart.com\/A55A04\/w.nsf\/Opra\/BRUE-5ZKDVM\">Paul Klee<\/a> in a coma. What is lively in Klee&#8217;s line is dead in hers. Just because she has an appealing back story doesn&#8217;t mean her drawings are any good at all. Looks as if this year&#8217;s Betty Bowen jurors were seduced by intent.<br \/><i><br \/>We Will Cover Your Fallen Body, Beth O&#8217;Brien, and Tell You That It Was<br \/>\nNot in Vain. The Forest at Eagle Creek Remains! Let It Echo Your Most<br \/>\nValiant of Names: Horehound&#8230;Horehound&#8230;.<\/i> 2010<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EllenLesperancebethhound.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/EllenLesperancebethhound.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"352\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland&#8217;s Ellen Lesperance won the Seattle Art Museum&#8217;s Betty Bowen Award in September, much to to the befuddlement of many in Seattle, who&#8217;d never heard of her. She has an exciting website, especially for feminists who appreciate the wider progressive history of their movement. Her site opens with rousing chants from decades-old street actions, currently, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}